Chris Köver

Chris Köver (born 1979) is a German journalist and feminist. She is co-founder and co-editor of the feminist Missy Magazine, which has been published since October 2008. Since 2018, she has worked full time in the editorial department of netzpolitik.org.

Life

Köver studied applied cultural studies and cultural studies in Lüneburg and Toronto from 1999 onwards. She completed a traineeship at Zeit Online from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, together with Stefanie Lohaus and Sonja Eismann, she founded Missy Magazine and continued to work as a freelance author, including for Die Zeit, Zeit Campus and Neon. She has written about pop culture, net culture and new technologies.

In 2012 Köver published the book Mach's selbst – Do it yourself for girls together with Sonja Eismann. The book gives practical and technical tips for DIY projects for girls, such as starting a band, planting a garden or writing a blog.

In 2014 Köver spent three months in the US on a Burns scholarship. From 2015 she was editor of the German-language edition of Wired, and in 2018 she moved to netzpolitik.org. Her topics there include state and private surveillance, artificial intelligence, digital violence and the surveillance of refugees.